{"id":48093,"date":"2015-10-09T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48093"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T01:16:13","slug":"retired-officer-denounces-police-focus-on-drug-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/10\/09\/retired-officer-denounces-police-focus-on-drug-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Officer Denounces Police Focus on Drug Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST ON KPFK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601500.us.archive.org\/5\/items\/20150925Dr.CarlHart_20150922\/2015_09_25_Jack_Cole.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601500.us.archive.org\/5\/items\/20150925Dr.CarlHart_20150922\/uprising_2015_09_25.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Jack Cole<\/strong> is retired state police lieutenant with the New Jersey state police. He is also the founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first point of interaction that ordinary Americans have that lead them into the prison system is with law enforcement. Police have been trained to behave as soldiers in a war in which drug dealers are enemy combatants and the public is collateral damage. The policing is often racially motivated, and departments have grown increasingly reliant on the extra funding to target drug sales. As a result, a huge proportion of inmates are imprisoned for drug-related offenses today. But one former officer has taken a very different view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST ON KPFK GUEST: Jack Cole is retired state police lieutenant with the New Jersey state police. He is also the founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). *This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015. The first point of interaction that ordinary Americans have that lead them into the prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48319,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions\/48319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}